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Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 12, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WISCONSIN ROLLER-COASTER: Tuesday, the Wisconsin Vital Records office said it was not processing the records of marriage licenses obtained by same-sex couples; Wednesday, it said it is. According to [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 11, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service SEVENTH CIRCUIT CONSIDERS WISCONSIN: State officials and attorneys representing same-sex plaintiff couples have been given until 5 p.m. today to file briefs concerning the state's request for an emergency [...]
Eric Cantor Loses Primary
In a surprise upset, U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) lost his primary Tuesday for an eighth term. According to various media in Virginia, winner Dave Brat, an economics professor at a small college, [...]
Gay Candidate Updates
GAY CANDIDATE LOSES IN VIRGINIA: Openly gay Virginia State Senator Adam Ebbin placed third in a 10-candidate field in the Democratic primary to replace U.S. House Rep. Jim Moran from northern Virginia. Ebbin garnered almost [...]
Lily Tomlin Talks Favorite D*ck Pic, The Beygency & Ms. Frizzle
It's nearing the end of my 40-minute chat with Lily Tomlin when she steps off her feminist soapbox and wonders what just happened. "I can't wait to see what you make of this conversation," says [...]
Hate Crimes At Motor City Pride
AJ Trager VIDEO: Gay man beaten at pride festival (wxyz.com) DETROIT -Sunday at Motor City Pride, a 20-year-old man fell victim to a hate crime for being a member of the LGBT community, according to [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 10, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WISCONSIN MARRIAGES CONTINUE: U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb denied a motion Monday from the Wisconsin attorney general for a stay in her June 6 ruling that the state [...]
Hate Crimes At Motor City Pride
BTL Staff Watch the video and help identify the assailants. Contact the Detroit Police Department at (313) 596-2200. DETROIT -Sunday at Motor City Pride, a 20-year-old man fell victim to a hate crime for [...]
Pints Of Pride: Drink To Support Jim Toy Community Center
Billâs Beer Garden will be hosting âEquality on Tap!â in support of the Jim Toy Community Center this Thursday. The new Ann Arbor beer garden will generously donate $1 of every beer sold to JTCC, [...]
Pints Of Pride: Drink To Support Jim Toy Community Center
Bill's Beer Garden will be hosting "Equality on Tap!" in support of the Jim Toy Community Center this Thursday. The new Ann Arbor beer garden will generously donate $1 of every beer sold to JTCC, [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 9, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WISCONSIN BAN STRUCK, APPEAL COMING: A federal judge in Wisconsin Friday struck down the state's ban on same-sex couples marrying and, while some clerks began issuing marriage licenses immediately, [...]
The Sad Truth About ‘The Fault In Our Stars’
If I weren't such a sucker for a good cry, I'd probably like "The Fault in Our Stars" a lot less than I did. In fact, part of me was enraptured with the screen adaptation [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 6, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service TWO MORE GROUPS DISS ENDA: The National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equality Illinois issued separate statements Thursday, joining the chorus of those who say the current version of [...]
U.S.: Age And Ideology Drive Same Sex Marriage Views
By BTL Staff The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll released today on same-sex marriage, shows most Americans overall, 56 percent, support allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, not significantly different from the all-time high, [...]
A Supremely Grand and Elegant Headline
By A Person By Design This is a short caption, a fairly short caption, a fairly fairly short captionThis is a short caption, a fairly short caption, a fairly fairly short captionThis is a short [...]
Federal Board Overturns Medicare Exclusion of Transition-Related Care
AJ Trager WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Department Appeals Board decided today that the exclusion of transition-related medical procedures in a 1989 Medicare policy did not reflect standards of [...]
Throwin’ Shade
After a brutal winter that left most of us begging for mercy, it's finally time to enjoy some fun in the sun. To help you step out in take-that-snow-and-shove-it style this season, peep these top [...]
William Fitzsimmons: The Man Behind The Beard
By Sarah Bricker-Hunt Photo: Ole Westermann If there's a unifying theme to be found in William Fitzsimmons' songwriting so far, it might be family, in all its weird and beautiful forms. From providing the [...]
Woodward Wildflowers
By Shelby Clark Petkus A thousand sunflowers will be planted on Woodward Avenue this summer in the park district between Six and Eight Mile Roads as part of the "Sunflowers on Woodward" project. Presented by [...]
Too Gay To Function In The Closet
Across 1 Type of salami you can put in your hero 6 "Showboat"'s "Nobody ___ But Me" 10 Eight for Estefan 14 Egg shapes 15 Pride member 16 Have sex, with "around" 17 Lifeboat lowerer [...]
No Checkmate For This ‘Red King’
By John Quinn Every fan of "Star Trek" can tell you that the logical mind has trouble grasping the illogical. There are few sensations as illogical as love, and the inexperienced Steven Tudor makes all [...]
Unique Fashion, Universal Femininity
By Carolyn Hayes In its season selections, Two Muses Theatre has never hesitated to refer back to its mission to provide opportunities for women in theater. But in the company's fitting season closer, "Love, Loss, [...]
Delightful ‘Scoundrels’ Leaves ‘Em Laughing
By Bridgette M. Redman The Great Escape Stage Company is giving them what they want with "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." The loyal audience is filling up the place and getting treated to a fun musical that [...]
The Ringwald’s Gay Play Series
One of this years GPS events features Shrew, Slipstream Theatre Initiatives all-male take on William Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew featuring (left to right) Miles Bond, Brenton Herwat, Bailey Boudreau and Steve Xander Carson. Photo: [...]
Hotter Than July: Detroit’s Black Gay Pride Celebrates 19 Years Next Month
It's year 19 and the theme is Happy Together. KICK, the Agency for LGBT African Americans, which produces the annual week-long celebration, has been holding Hotter Than July planning committee meetings since January. "It's still [...]
Out of Town: Cleveland & Gay Games 9
By Andrew Collins One of the most historic and beloved public food markets in the country West Side Market is in the heart of Cleveland's LGBT-popular Ohio City neighborhood. Photo by Andrew Collins The host [...]
Lutherans Embrace LGBT Community With ‘Reconciling In Christ’
By Paulette Niemiec You walk into a church on a Sunday morning. Looking around, you nervously gaze at those sitting in the pews. You walk slowly with hesitation toward a chair off to the side [...]
Time Is Right For Transgender Rally At Ferndale Pride
By Paulette Niemiec Nikk Selik was one of the speakers at the rally. BTL photo: Paulette Niemie The time was right. In fact, the time couldn't have been any more perfect than now for [...]
ACLU Of Michigan Asks Court To Order State to Recognize LGBT Marriages
BTL STAFF DETROIT - On May 22 the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a motion for preliminary injunction asking the federal district court to require the State of Michigan to recognize the 300 [...]
James Pascoe, Who Performed as ‘Jerri Daye,’ Dies At 77
By Tim Retzloff Jerri Daye 1962/James Pascoe James Pascoe, a star Detroit female impersonator at the Diplomat Lounge and the Gold Dollar Show Bar during the 1960s who later worked clubs from Vancouver to [...]
Four Seek To Bring LGBT Representation To Michigan
By Chris Johnson Four openly gay Michigan canidates visited the Victory Fund in Washington, D.C. last week. From left Attorney Rudy Serra running for the District 27 for Michigan State House, Jon Hoadley, a gay [...]
Sometimes two jobs are the perfect match – even if they are on opposite sides of the state
By Bridgette M. Redman Greg Grobis is a man in constant motion as he travels between Detroit and Holland holding down two complementary jobs in the theater. After years of doing both, he's still as [...]
LGBT Older Adult Summit Coming Up
The Fourth Annual LGBT Older Adult Summit comes to Detroit June 21. The event is organized by the LGBT Older Adult Summit Planning Committee. The gathering will look at senior employment and volunteer opportunities, along [...]
Nerds Under The Rainbow
AJ Trager DETROIT Bringing local nerds together, Nerd Nite, a monthly event held in the Tangent Gallery in Detroit, centers on fun yet informative 18-21 minute presentations. In celebration of Pride, Nerd Nite will focus [...]
Anti-Violence Report Shows Decline In Reporting Survivors
BY AJ Trager MICHIGAN - A new report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), titled Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2013, shows a decline in reporting survivors for [...]
Second Parent Adoption Forum
The Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Cincinnati will be hearing arguments this summer not only on the right of Michigan same-sex couples to marry, but also on the right to adopt each others' children. Learn [...]
Annual Gathering Of LGBT Issues Seeks Workshop Proposals
Hotter Than July, Detroit's annual African-American LGBTQ pride event and the nation's second oldest African-American LGBT social justice rally, is hosting the Annual Gathering of LGBTQ Issues conference this July. This year's theme is "Happy [...]
HAVEN Event Set To ‘Raise The Roof’
Raise The Roof is HAVEN's inaugural gala which takes place June 6th at the Detroit Marriott Troy. This signature event will honor HAVEN's long history of serving victims of domestic and sexual violence and will [...]
New Health Equity Council
BTL Staff FERNDALE - On May 28, the new Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Health Equity Council of Southeast Michigan, geared towards systematically impacting the health of local LGBT communities, met for the first time [...]
New Gallup Poll Sees Rise In Moral Acceptability Of Gay And Lesbian Relations
By Lisa Keen Public opinion on same-sex relations has improved more dramatically than it has on any other controversial issue with strong moral sensibilities, according to data released May 30 by the Gallup Poll organization. [...]
Building An Equality Database
AJ Trager Equaldex creator Dan Leveille LOS ANGELES -What did you do by the time you were 25? Perhaps you graduated from Graduate School or were able to pay off your first car? In [...]
Kevin D. Williamson
Whooo-oooo-whooo-oooo! It's the gender police! Chief Inspector Kevin D. Williamson has put a warrant out for Laverne Cox because she isn't taking the Cox part of her name literally enough. Williamson has laid out his [...]
Parting Glances: Lost Language of S/he
As a post-pubescent teenager growing up on Detroit's Peterboro Street - just down the block from still-standing Burton Elementary School, recently turned movie and music theater venue - I spoke a made-up language called Quinish. [...]
Inevitable Equality, With All Of Your Help
By Emily Dievendorf This is PRIDE. Have you checked the score lately? We are winning hearts and minds. Winning the argument. People are coming to know us and stand with us. We are working on [...]
MotorBall Fills Motor City Pride Weekend
MotorBall 2014, the party surrounding Motor City Pride every year, celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend. Kicking off the ball is the official opening party, "Accelerate," for the New Menjo's Complex featuring legendary Detroit icon, [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 5, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service INFLAMMATORY PETITION LAUNCHED: A "No Unequal Rights Coalition" launched a website Tuesday to circulate petitions in hopes of putting a referendum on Houston's November ballot to repeal the city's [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 5, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service SUPREME COURT SAYS NO TO NOM: The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied a request to stop same-sex couples in Oregon from marrying. The request came from the National Organization [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know June 4 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service INFLAMMATORY PETITION LAUNCHED: A "No Unequal Rights Coalition" launched a website Tuesday to circulate petitions in hopes of putting a referendum on Houston's November ballot to repeal the city's [...]
‘Very Personal’ Battle In Houston
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service In a battle she characterized as "very personal" and "about me," Annise Parker, the openly gay mayor of the fourth most populous city in the United States, won a [...]